This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Embassies and Consulates I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Embassies and Consulates
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Embassies and Consulates There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Embassies and Consulates
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Embassies and Consulates And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Embassies and Consulates Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Embassies and Consulates
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Embassies and Consulates "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Embassies and Consulates
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Embassies and Consulates Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Embassies and Consulates
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Embassies and Consulates Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Embassies and Consulates
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Embassies and Consulates "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Embassies and Consulates
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Embassies and Consulates If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
